Description

This eight-hour course serves as a combination of Sports First Aid course and Concussion Management workshop together in one day.

Sports First Aid course content: The first component serves as an introduction to injury prevention and on-site management of sports related injuries. topics covered include recognition and control of potentially hazardous situations, injury assessment and the handling of life-threatening situations, management of common injuries, referral patterns and development of a sports first-aid kit.

Concussion Management workshop: The second component of the focusses on sharing the latest medical and scientific information about brain injury, sport risk factors, prevention techniques, and concussion management guidelines.

Participants will review the latest assessment tools, protocols and techniques including: the Concussion Assessment Tool, and Return To-Learn and Return to-Sport protocols.

Age Category

Adult

Location

PCCC JB Young Room at Port Coquitlam Community Centre